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Starbucks to Robust Sales

People may be grumbling about their losses in the stock market, but they are still reaching for $4 lattes at Starbucks.

And that is good news for the Seattle coffee chain, which is weathering the first recession since it went public in 1992. Naysayers wondered aloud if a slowing economy would stall the Starbucks growth machine, born in the go-go 1990s. In tight times, would good old home-brewing make a comeback?